Thuggery, tyranny and the war on drugs

In a nightmare totalitarian world, political speech is targeted and the speakers punished for their dissent against what The Masters are doing. [sarcasm]Of course, in the United States of America we have the First Amendment to guarantee that never happens.[/sarcasm]

Or at the very least, the cause and effect are rarely quite as obvious as they were when Willie Nelson and his entourage were arrested for hemp possession two days after Willie spoke out for decriminalization of hemp possession.

I'm not sure the E! Online writer meant to juxtapose the two, but it sure works well that way:

"The bust came just two days after Nelson called for the decriminalization of marijuana while stumping for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman. According to Willie Williams of the Louisiana Highway Patrol, Nelson and crew were traveling along Highway 10 when they were stopped for a routine commercial inspection."

"Routine commercial inspection," my not-so-muscular buttocks. Someone out there wanted to teach this very visible and admired person a lesson about saying things in the political arena - especially things that undermine the "war on drugs," where the presumption is that only the federal government and pharmaceutical companies have the wisdom and knowledge to dispense medicinal-type substances and regulate their use and/or abuse. First Amendment be damned.

It's an amazing coincidence, the frequency with which people who challenge The Powers That Be find themselves undergoing IRS audits or "routine commercial inspections." It's all aimed to intimidate the populace and keep us in line. I imagine it really irritates them when a non-smoker whose only recreational drugs are caffeine and alcohol, like me, calls them thugs and tyrants. How do they squash someone who only sits on the sidelines of the drug war and comments about the obvious? I admit that question makes me a little nervous, which is why the "routine commercial inspections" are so effective and so tyrannical.

The drugs czars of America hate our freedoms. Damn terrorists.